Posted on 09/10/2006 10:49:45 AM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Tensions between China and Japan often bubble to the surface in the international media, particularly over visits in recent times by Prime Minister Kozuimi to the Yakusuni shrine. These occasional tensions are rarely examined by the western media, however, any foreigner who visits China and turns on state television would be shocked by the incessant anti-Japanese rhetoric that fills the programming from the news stories to the documentaries.
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While this doesn't affect the United States directly, it does show that the United States has the opportunity to use this situation to its own benefit, particularly in light of China's aggressive intentions in the long term.
Chineese and Koreans both still hate Japaneese with a passion.
Japaneese were just dreadful to both for decades before and during WWII.
Not many of our enemies feel constrained by political correctness.
In the real world, political correctness is a disease. It's like trying to protect yourself against your enemies with both hands tied behind your back, while you wear a blindfold that keeps you from seeing what is going on.
Time to remove the blindfold of political correctness and refute the lies of the left. Hirohito was brutal to the Chinese people. Mao was many times more brutal.
Japan has repudiated its past sins. China has not, and has not present intentions of doing so. And our American universities are still full of academics who excuse this behavior. They still consider Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Guevara, and Chavez to be heroes of progressivism.
China ping.
From an international political perspective, the smartest thing the next Prime Minister of Japan could do would be to stop visiting the Yakasuni shrine which would remove the one issue that the Chinese Government continues to use against the Japanese.
My own guess is that Chief Cabinet Secretary Abe is unlikely to stop visiting Yasukuni.
Mao is still a saint in the eyes of everyday Chinaman.
He actually made Hitler look like a piker. Throw in Ol Joe stalin and now you have some butchers.
Mao is still a saint in the eyes of everyday Chinaman."
Most Chinese who say this are either just going through the motions or aren't old enough to remember life under him.
"He actually made Hitler look like a piker. Throw in Ol Joe stalin and now you have some butchers."
Now that is more true than the Politically Correct crowd will ever admit.
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